Finishing strip for upholstery and the like



March 4 E. VOGT FINISHING STRIP FOR UPHOLSTERY AND THE LIKE Filed 0G13. ll. 1920 Mun-Hun umani INVENTOR. fiumi Y @y ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 4, 1924.

UNITED vSTATES ortica.

ALBERT E. VOGT, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, lASSIGNOR TO 'VOG-T MANUFACTURING- CORPORATION, OF ROCHESTER. NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FINISHING STRIP FOR UPHOLSTERY AND THE LIKE.`

'Application filed October 11, 1920. Serial No. 416,282.

To alt whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. Voor, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new Vand useful Improvements in Finishing Strips for Upholstery and the like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference numerals marked thereon. y o

My present kinvention relates to upholstery and coach work and to the textile arts connected therewith and it has for its object to provide a practical cheap and attractive finishing strip such as is employed to make an ornamental edging and cover the seams in upholstering jobs such as the interiors of automobiles and carriage bodies. A further object of the invention is to provide a strip that may be accurately and neatly applied by relatively unskilled labor and the fastening means concealed. To these and other ends lthe invention resides in cer-tain improvements and `combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a section Aof finishing strip constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar view of another embodiment of the invention;

Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 1 before the application of the strip has been completed;

Figure 4 is a similar view on the same section line with the application of the strip completed;

Figure 5 is an enlarged section on the line 5-5 of Figure 2 prior to the completion of the operation of applying the strip, and l Figure 6 is a section on the same line with the application of the strip completed.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

It has hitherto been the usual practice in constructing a finishing strip to use three separate elements or pieces, a cord and two ornamental tapes or gimps. One of the latf ter is folded about the cord to 4forni a bead and the edges tacked together against the support, while the othery is tacked'v to the support and then folded in such a way as to cover both sets of securing devices. The

obvious objections to this method are the handling of three `separate pieces; the duplicated tacking operation; the diiliculty of obtaining uniform arrangement of the parts, and the danger of smearing the ornamental surfaces with the cement used to secure the last strip in place.

`Referring first to Figures 1, 3 and 4, in the practice of my invention, I weave in one'piece as an integral textile product, a preferably cylindrical raised bead 1, an attaching strip 2 which I term the attaching y flange and a covering strip 3 which I term the covering or-fnishing flange, as this latter is usually of an ornamental nature andv is shown herein as a pile fabric, the ornamental pile-being indicated at 4. By weaving in one piece I mean that all of theparts as shown in Figure 3, come from the loom complete and in the final form and relationship of that figure, in which latter the warp threads appear endwise and the weft threads in side elevation, the cord of the bead 1 being formed in the loom alon with the rest of the structure. The bead 1 1s usually similarly ornamented as at 5 while the intermediate attaching flangev 2 is a straight weave of plain fabric thinner than the rest of the strip. In this form of the invention, the covering flange 3 is connected to he bead 1 through the medium of the interv ning attaching flange 2.

`In applying the strip, the bead 1 ispositioned at the desired point usually in a c'orner or along a wood or other abutting ySur'- face to the edge of which the upholstered covering (not shown) has been brought and the ange 2 is then secured tothe support S as by the tacks 6. Cement, indicated at 7 in Figure 4, is then smeared on the flange 2 and on the under surface of the covering iange 3 which surface is now uppermost, as in Figure 3, the ornamentation 4 being turned down against the support. It re mains only to turn over the covering flange 3.and double it upon and close against the flange 2, bringing the free edge of the covering flange closeagainst the bead 1. The se` curing devices 6 are thereby concealed and the ornamental surface 4 is all that is ex: posed. In applying the paste or cement it is to be obseiived that there is no danger of preading it upon finished surfaces of either an e.

Iii; the form of the invention shown in Figures 2, 5 and 6, the attaching flange 2l and the covering flange 3X are reversed in position in that the latter is attached to the bead lx directly and the former through the medium thereof. In applyingthe strip, the flange 2X is tacked down at 6 as before and the covering flange 3X folded over and cemented at 7X as shown in Figure 6, the bead l being carried With it and ultimately reaching the same relative position as before in the case of Figure 4.

Each form of the invention herein shown possesses an advantage over the other. In the embodiment of Figure 3, the strip is easy to accurately position because the bead 1 is placed in its ultimate position in the first instance but there is some danger that a clumsy Workman might smear the ornamental surface 5 of the bead With cement though this is not probable as such surface lies Well away from the surface of the fiange 2 While in the embodiment of Figure 5 the ornamental portion 5X of the bead l is temporarily inverted While the cement is being applied as Well as all other finished surfaces, but the workman must estimate the desired position of the bead With reference to the point at which he lays the flange 2x and place his tacks accordingly. The form may be selected Which is more'adaptable tothe particular job in hand.

I claim as my invention:

l. A fabricated finishing strip for upholstery comprising an ornamental corded bead and an attaching flange portion and a covering flange portion therefor, one of which fiange portions is connected to the bead through the medium of the other, which latter terminates in an integral tubular portion surrounding the cord of the bead, all of said parts being integrally Woven in one piece.

2. A. fabricated finishing strip for upholstery comprising an ornamental bead and two flange portions, one of which is connected to the bead through the medium of the other, one such flange portion being an attaching element arranged flat against a support and terminating in an integral tubular portion surrounding the cord of the bead, and the other being an ornamental element arranged parallel to and flat against the first at all points to conceal its attaching means, and all of said parts being integrally Woven in one piece.

ALBERT'E. VOGT.

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